Prayers for Prodigals

Some have asked us why we have so many pages like this in our book regarding family salvation. Well, having worked in the Lifeline Today prayer centre for 23 years, I've noticed that this is the greatest burden for our brothers and sisters in Christ. Viewers would call for prayer from all across Canada giving us the names of their children, grandchildren and other loved ones who have never given their lives to Christ, or did at one time but have fallen away. Especially now, as we see end time Bible prophecies come to pass before our eyes, I think this burden is even greater.

God was talking here in Zechariah 10:8a, to His beloved people, Israel. They had sinned against Him, disobeyed His laws. They had fallen away from serving Him. They came out from under His protection They were taken away by their enemies to live as captives in foreign lands.

But God whistled for them! He whistled as a farmer whistles for his sheep dog to come to him - as my Dad used to whistle for his cows to come home from the pasture into the safety of his barn.

God never stopped loving His children. He never will. He longs for them to come home - to come back into close relationship with Him.

So He whistled.

Take a moment right now and whistle for your children, your grandchildren, your wayward husband or wife... Join your whistle with God's. They will hear it, wherever they are. Our Lord God will gather them into His loving arms. He will redeem them. He will bring them home.

Would you like to give Henry and I the first names of your unsaved loved ones so we can whistle with you?

Calligraphy by Henry Vanderpyl and artwork by Maaike Boersma